Quotes About Cognition

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

All perception of truth is the detection of analogy; we reason from our hands to our head.

Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography."* What

Most people do not read; those who read do not understand; those who understand forget.

The more you know the more unhappy you are

There was an element of dull rage in his consciousness of things.

His mind contained several millions of facts, packed too closely together for the light breeze of the imagination to draw through the mass.

Men can know the nature of things

Au fond, les gens ne lisent pas ; ou, s'ils lisent, ils ne comprennent pas ; ou, s'ils comprennent, ils oublient.

Nothing is right or wrong but thinking makes it so. You no longer believe in reality but in thinking. And when you are pushed off the dead end your thoughts go with you and they are of no use to you.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

Whatsoever thing you believe strongly, it will be turned into truth within your mind.

Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.